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Dave H (MI)

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This is going to sound weird and I am not suggesting gremlins, leprechauns, or alien intervention. Serious question and here is why I ask.

About a month ago my '76 Chevy C20 pickup that I haul the tractors with started doing this thing where you turn the key and it sounds like the starter wants to turn but won't...no clicks, just won't turn. One year old battery. I just keep trying and eventually it starts.

Since then, SWMBO's Buick started doing the same thing. Battery just over 1 year. Has to be jumped every day.

IH 300 tractor with a fairly recent battery would not start last week. I had to charge the battery but it didn't take long and then it started.

This week I was checking out the combine and some of the gauges and switches are acting funny.

So two days ago I walked across to see what the neighbor had to say and he was in a tizzy over his truck. Strange electrical problems.

Is all this damp, humid weather messing with the our electrical systems or is this just one massive co-inky-dink??
 
If you live near high voltage transmission lines. There is a thing called stray voltage. Rare but it can happen. I have seen it once in forty years.Can cause some weird things to happen.
 
My 1998 Ford Expedition was doing that earlier this summer and it turned out to be a bad battery/starter cable. One of the crimped on ends was corroded inside.
 
I used to own an IH 3444 TLB with a neighbor. He would keep it in his steel buildings with dirt floors. The battery connections would frequently corrode when he had it. Never bothered here. He was always having similar issues with his other machines.

Sure, the weather effects such things, it effects everything!
 
For you nut jobs that think it is aliens...just want you to know that I have a collection of about 2 dozen baseball caps and every one has a 6 x 6 piece of tin foil in the liner...so I KNOW it's not aliens! Crazy people can be irritating, don't you think?

The rest I will have to think on. No high voltage close to me. Storms have been minor as far as I know. They always seem to hit when I am oop in dah nort country, don't ya know. I'm sticking with the hoomidity theory. We got plenty of that.
 
I got mine at a vendors booth at a Star Trek convention but if you are anywhere near Roswell, NM I understand all the stores carry it.
 
Well good, because that's the first thing I am going to check. Especially with the combine because I have had it sitting out. If y'all are going to those tractor shows over there this weekend you best take one of those squirty bottles with the fans on them. Have a care. I made myself very sick one year working outside in this kind of weather.
 
I had a bad ground cable in my truck do that once upon a time. I know a couple of our tractors have been acting up lately too. Clean the connections and all is well again.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
If any of these batteries are "side post" it is not a NEW PROBLEM. When I owned my auto repair business, I ran into this very same problem many times over the years with GM [i:0170208ce5]"brilliant idea"[/i:0170208ce5].
Connection is lost and then recovers inside the battery and a few years ago it was caused by the mounting screw bottoming out from being too long or going deeper by over tightening.
 
It might have something to do with aleins. At least someone spaced out to invent the side mount batteries. I had a similar problem with my 93 chev van a couple of weeks ago. Even though I cleaned the connections it still wasn't making good contact. I started looking for another problem and ended up having to take the steering column apart and replace the ignition switch for nothing. Then I went back to the battery connection and ended up sandblasting it to make it work. Engineers, they love to change things, even if it's for the worst.
 
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